Derek Streat, CEO of Dexcare: $110 Million Raised to Help Health Systems to Find Time for the Best Care Category Visionaries

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Derek Streat, CEO of Dexcare, a healthcare access optimization platform that’s raised over $110 Million in funding, about why connecting healthcare providers and patients is the best way to ensure the highest quality care at the lowest possible per unit cost and ensure a healthier world for everyone. By making care more discoverable online, navigating them to the best options, and being sensitive to the non-clinical elements which comprise a comprehensive patient care environment.
 
We also spoke about Derek’s career across a whole brace of tech startups, his passion for social enterprise and bringing a business-model mindset to the impact space, and why he fundamentally believes that doing well and doing good don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Topics Discussed:
Derek’s career in tech, from marketing and adtech to the healthcare sector 
Why Derek has such a passion for social enterprise, and why he believes that you very much can do well and do good at the same time
Why, even in the non-profit space, a business-model mindset is still the best way to successfully deliver for your clients
How optimizing access to the right kind of healthcare benefits everyone involved, from getting people the services they need to distributing the burden of care more evenly across the sector
Why Derek finds category creation and doing something new is one of the most fun parts of building a business
How pain-mapping problems for potential clients should be the first stage in creating your new business category
 
Favorite book: 
The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results